Jeffrey Snover: Retired/ Philosopher-Errant / PowerShell Inventor / Science geek.
Needham, Mass
Joined December 2008
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Jeffrey Snover retweeted
PowerShell started with a bold idea. But turning that idea into reality took an extraordinary team. 💡
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And one of the people who made it happen was Bruce Payette.
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A founding member of the PowerShell team, co-designer of the language, and author of “Windows PowerShell in Action”, Bruce played a fundamental role in shaping the PowerShell we know today.
Don Jones captured his contribution perfectly in his book "Shell of an idea": "...his encyclopedic knowledge of languages was key to developing PowerShell..."
I'm delighted that Bruce will join @jsnover and six other guests from the PowerShell community for our 20th anniversary livestream! 🎉
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We'll revisit the early Monad days, the challenges of building PowerShell, and some of the stories behind its creation.
💬 What would you like to ask Bruce and Jeffrey about those early days?
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📅 Saturday, November 14, 2026 | 18:00 CET | 12 PM ET | 9 AM PT
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🎟️ Join the LinkedIn Event:
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#PowerShell #PowerShell20 #CommunityRockz
Jeffrey Snover retweeted
What’s the ONE question you’ve always wanted to ask Jeffrey Snover? 🤔
On November 14, PowerShell turns 20! 🎉
To celebrate, @jsnover, the inventor of PowerShell, and seven special guests from the PowerShell community are coming together for a 60-minute livestream.
20 Years Of PowerShell: One Idea That Changed IT Forever
We'll look back at the early days, share memorable stories from two decades of PowerShell, and explore what the future holds.
And of course, no PowerShell celebration would be complete without the community!
💬 What's the ONE question you'd like to ask Jeffrey?
💡 What's your most memorable PowerShell story?
A brilliant script, an epic failure, or something you'll never forget?
Share your questions and stories in the comments below! 👇⠀
📅 Saturday, November 14, 2026
🕕 18:00 CET | 12:00 PM ET | 9:00 AM PT
🔴 Live on YouTube, LinkedIn and X⠀
🎟️ Join the LinkedIn Event:
linkedin.com/events/75169021…
Let's celebrate 20 years of PowerShell together! 🥳
#PowerShell #PowerShell20 #CommunityRockz
Jeffrey Snover retweeted
Will #AI replace #PowerShell?
@jsnover says that's the wrong question.
The future isn't PowerShell or AI. It's PowerShell and AI.
🎥 Watch the interview 👉 youtu.be/Xb3Tvc5tU_k?si=uUIp…
#Automation #DevOps #PSConfEU
If you were at my NIC keynote, I’d love your candid feedback.
Drop your thoughts below, and youll be entered into a draw for a 1-on-1 Office Hours session with me.
forms.gle/2GgAgkc39RYozACs6
A lot of people have asked about how I beat jet lag.
Here is protocol:
jsnover.com/blog/2026/10/14/…
This seems .... unsophisticated.
My money is on the not being a nation state attack but rather a bunch of polymarket tech-bros.
We'll see.
Eric Weinstein keeps claiming he is at the cutting edge of math and physics.
Has anyone ever heard a credible, mainstream mathematician or theoretical physicist that agrees with that assessment?
Or even a non-credible, non-mainstream one?
In other news, I'm a the cutting edge of handsomeness and wit.
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Did I mention it was critical to get on top of your cyber security game?
You can learn from other's mistakes.
Or you can learn from your own.
Hundreds of French supermarkets have been hit by a cyber-attack that caused their fridges and freezers to heat up. Read more: bbc.in/4i0Dy77
AI is making the world more safe.
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AI is making the work less safe.
1) The race is on.
2) It's never been more important to update your systems.
GPT + Opus (via Copilot CLI) helped me uncover 180 JIT bugs, each with a minimal C# repro using only safe code 😶 - most had been hiding from us for many releases github.com/dotnet/runtime/is…
Anthropic will ban users for sustained and needless abusive or cruel behavior toward Claude - 3 perspectives
jsnover.com/blog/2026/10/09/…
Philosophy helps me understand the world better.
Sovereign violence stripped of civic weight and livestreamed is Debord’s Integrated Spectacle: authoritarian theater with the mechanics of the algorithmic feed.
Justice reduced to pure appearance.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_So…
Sam Altman spoke.
The internet lost it's freaking mind.
He's wrong.
They're wronger.
Details:
jsnover.com/blog/2026/10/05/…
Jeffrey Snover retweeted
👋 21-24 June 2027 👋
That's the only thing we're announcing today.
If you'd like to hear about ticket sales, speaker announcements and other #PSConfEU updates before everyone else, subscribe on our website psconf.eu
#PowerShell #Automation #IT #Conference
Jeffrey Snover retweeted
🌍 Why was PowerShell built around objects instead of text?
In this #PSConfEU 2026 session, PowerShell creator @jsnover explains the philosophy, architecture, and design decisions that shaped PowerShell from day one.
👉 youtu.be/050WVDE_R_o?si=3V7J…
#PowerShell #Pwsh #Automation
Sam Altman spoke to the UN Security Council yesterday.
I had my AI Rosetta Stone tool produce 3 synthetic Op-Eds.
Headlines:
Accelerationist: Govern AI Like the Printing Press, Not Like Plutonium
The push for a global licensing regime would hand three companies a monopoly with a diplomatic letterhead — and bill the delay to the sick.
Safetyist: An Invitation to Be Regulated Is Not a Regulator
When the head of OpenAI asked the U.N. Security Council for global AI oversight, he named the problem. Governments still have to build the brake.
Skeptic: The Security Council Is the Wrong Room for a Power Bill
When AI executives seek out the chamber built for wars and warheads, they turn an industrial problem — electricity, water, contract labor — into a crisis only they can manage.
Here are the Op-Eds:
taxonomy-editor.yellowbush-a…
There are 2 key values to the Op-Ed tool:
1) See how other's view a issue
2) Explore the grounding at the end of the Op-Ed to understand WHY they are saying what they are saying. The Grounding is where you get to explore exactly what you agree or disagree with. It is the tool to sharpen your thinking.
Give it a try and let me know what you think.
